Armored cab



Nov. 2

C. A. PLANTE ARMORED. cm

Filed Jan. 4. 192.6

2 Sheets-Sheet l H ld Ur Nov. 2 1926. 1,605,769 Q. A. PLANTE ARMORED CAR Filed Jan. 4. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 anmzmtoz Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES FFICE.

CHARLES AUGUST PLAN'I'E, OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-FOURTH TO JOHN KING, OF MADISON, WISCONSIN.

ARMORED CAR.

Application filed January 4, 1926. Serial No. 79,210.

This invention relates to an armored car construction and aims to provide a burglarproof car for transporting valuables such as mail, money or the like.

The primary object of the invention is to provide means whereby the clerks or occupants of the car may protect themselves against bandits, novel means being provided whereby the occupants of the car may have a full view of the persons attempting to break into the car and may fire at the persons without danger of being hit by the bandits.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for protecting the occupants of the car against explosives or harmful gases being thrown into the car to overcome the clerks or occupants of the car.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure l is a side elevational View of a car constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a-sectional view taken on line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional View taken on line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure t is a sectional view through the car and illustrating the interior thereof.

Figure 5 is a sectional View taken on line 5-5 of Figure 4:.

Figure 6 is a sectional view taken on line 66 of Figure at.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the body portion of the car is indicated generally by the reference character 5, which body portion is supplied with the usual doors 6 and windows 7 Disposed adjacent to the side edges of the doors and windows of the car are vertical guides 8, which support the steel plates 9 with the result that the plates 9 are slidhang down as shown by the drawings.

ably mounted and adapted to move vertically within the slides to the end that the flexible members operate over the pulleys 12 disposed directly above the doors and windows, from where the flexible members At the lower end of each flexible member is a ring 13 which is adapted to be positioned over the hook 14: associated therewith and arranged adjacent to the base of the door or window so that when the flexible member is pulled by the clerks or occupants of the car, the ring may be positioned over the hook to hold the guard plates in position.

The sides of the car are also provided with openings which are normally closed by the hinged closures 15, there being provided outwardly projecting housings 16 formed preferably of steel.

Circular openings are formed in the front and side walls of the housing 16, in which openings are positioned the spherical members 17 that are held within the openings in such a way as to permit the spherical members to move freely therein.

These members 17 are formed with openings 18 through which the barrel of a gun or revolver may be positioned and moved in such a way as to permit the firearm to be adjusted or sighted. Thus it will be obvious that due to this construction, a person positioning himself within a housing may use a firearm in protecting the contents of the car against armed bandits.

Members similar to that shown in the front and side walls of the housings are used in openings formed in the bottom walls of the housings, which bottom walls are shown as inclined at 19.

Powerful electric lamps indicated at 20 may also be positioned adjacent to the top of the car so that the occupants of the car may by completing a circuit to the lamp illuminate the area adjacent to the car to aid in the use of firearms.

I claim:

An armored oar having doors and WindoWs, said car having openings in the side Walls thereof, outwardly projecting housings built around the openings, the Walls of 5 said housings having openings, movable members having openings positioned Within the openings of the housings, to permit a firearm to be operated therethrough, and means for normally closing the first mentioned openings.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature. v

CHARLES AUGUST PLANTE. 

